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If you’re a committed foodie, welcome to the fold. Do you want delicious recipes and sustainable gardening and farming tips? Do you want to be the first to know about exciting Brasserie initiatives and our popular events calendar? Then this page is for you. If you love good food, health and nutrition and eco-friendly practices that are making a significant difference to our local environment, you’ll find plenty of stimulating reading material right here.
Aloe vera
Aloe vera juice is a gooey, thick liquid made from the flesh of the aloe vera plant leaf, growing in The Brasserie’s organic garden. The aloe vera we use on our skin in over-the-counter gels is derived from plants of the same name. In fact, there’s more than one kind of aloe, with an estimated 420 different species.
Surinam cherry
The Surinam cherry is not a cherry nor is it exclusively from Surinam. An acquired taste, most people expect a cherry flavour but instead, get ready for a tangy-sweetness with a hint of bitterness.
Butter beans
There is a truck load of goodness in our most recent butter bean haul; a legume as versatile in cooking as its growing conditions. Beans […]
Kaffir lime
If we told you that the humble and unassuming leaf of the kaffir lime assisted with oral health, helped to detoxify the blood, boosted skin […]
Radish
A cook’s highest compliment to a fruit or vegetable is simplicity of preparation. Radishes, one of winter’s most convincing arguments for eating seasonally, can provide just […]
